Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Walker, Thomas F.” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Haystacks, Morning, Eragny
Camille Pissarro · 1899

Depth Sounder
Walker, Thomas F.

Jalais Hill, Pontoise
Camille Pissarro · 1867

Log and Rotor, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1881

A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
Camille Pissarro · 1874

Thomas Walker Gilmer
Francis D'Avignon, 29 Oct 1813 - c. 1871 · 1844

Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · ca. 1878–79
Coelothrix irregularis (Harv.) Børgesen
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Jul 1961

Elizabeth Farren (born about 1759, died 1829), Later Countess of Derby
Sir Thomas Lawrence · 1790

Society of American Artists, Jury of 1890
Unidentified Artist · 1890

Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1787
Triumfetta sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

Soprano Recorder in B
Thomas Coenraet Boekhout · ca. 1700

Annona montana Macfad.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott (1754?–1823)
Thomas Gainsborough · 1778

Melochia lupulina Sw.
Artist not stated in the record · 24 Jan 1966

Reliquary Casket with Scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1173–80

Land indenture for the Barbados plantation of Captain Gunston
Artist not stated in the record · March 28, 1685

Coffeepot
François Thomas Germain · 1757

Sympetrum semicinctum
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Sympetrum semicinctum
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960

Susan Walker Morse (The Muse)
Samuel F. B. Morse · ca. 1836–37

Sympetrum semicinctum
Artist not stated in the record · 3 Aug 1960
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 1864 matched · 24 examined · 5 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 776662 matched · 40 examined · 23 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 23:43 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.